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holist

a. (context education of a learning strategy English) That concentrates on forming an overview of the topic. n. 1 A believer in, or practitioner of, holism; one who believes that a topic of study cannot be fully understood by studying the parts, or who studies by considering the whole. 2 (context sociology English) One who advocates studying society as a whole, and who consistently interprets the actions of individuals in that context. 3 (context education English) One who prefers to learn by forming an overview of the topic.

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This story allows the holists to hide the deeper crime of the Enlightenment that the holists themselves are still perpetuating.

In understandably emphasizing the importance and the urgency of eco-holistic fit, the holists have absolutized the Lower-Right quadrant, which, in thus sealing it off from any true integration, condemns it to the fate of all fragments.

In chapter 1 we saw that, according to the holists themselves, we today suffer from a fractured worldview.

And within this subtle reductionism, within the fundamental Enlightenment paradigm, there were two warring camps: flatland atomists and flatland holists.

This totally confuses and bitterly angers the holists, because they sincerely think they are the good guys, since they managed to defeat gross reductionism.

This is what seems to so confuse the flatland holists (and the ecological critics of contemplation), because in their flatland world of self and cosmos, the more attention you place on one, the less attention you have for the other (and they want everyone's eyes riveted on exterior nature), whereas in the pluridimensional and holoarchic Kosmos, the more the depths of the self are disclosed, the more the corresponding depths of the Kosmos reveal themselves.

Using Omar Narayama's universal syntax, the holists of the Order constructed a formal system, or science, that treated the individual mind as sub-programs of a universal algorithm.